M5267
"Initial Colonization of earth proved difficult and was compounded by the knowledge that we were all that remained" -President Collins one of the founders of the UCHW M0
Oma Ker was the pride of the Hierarchy's navy second only to palaven itself and yet for all its military might they had grown complacent in peace sure in their power and might such illusions were swept aside with the invasion of Oma Ker as the UCHW flooded into the system and though the Hierarchy fought back they were unable to win it was only a matter of time.- General Williams on the Relay War
Fighters darted across the sky by the hundreds saturating the enemy city in preparation for the coming battle. While the council races had long abandoned strike craft for military usage they had been a corner stone of union navel warfare from the beginning. AI guided munitions falling with pinpoint accuracy every bomb dropped, rocket fired and Rail fired hit its mark. Eric looked on in awe the sheer power being unleashed like nothing he had seen before. The saturation lasted hours until all the Starfighters had exhausted there munition stores and began returning to their carriers in orbit. Eric tightened his grip on his P-Flamer in anticipation of what was to come. Fear still nagged in the corner of his mind the what ifs whispering to him he ignored them as best he could in preparation of what was to come. APC he was in rushed across the alien landscape the city closing in. Hundreds of thousands of vehicles were participating in this charge the sheer scope without precedent to their foes. The surviving defenses began to open fire on them artillery smashing into the ground around them cannons unleashing a devastating fusillade. APCs hit by the artillery flung into the air like children's toys there occupants ripped apart. It didn't matter though no matter how many vehicles were destroyed there were still hundreds of thousands like them continuing to charge forward.
They reached the outer trenches surrounding the city armored bunkers and heavy weapon positions opening up as they closed in. The APCs closest to the enemy lines rolled to a stop and began disgorging their cargo. Eric rushed out into the fray the screams of the dead and dying on both sides echoing across the field. Opening up with his P-flamer he tried to ignore the cries of agony from his victims as he and the other Flame Troopers began burning the enemy out of their positions with plasma fire leaving burnt charred corpses in their wake. He could see the tanks and other infantry regiments moving around him as they moved through the breach they had made in the enemy lines tanks rolling over the trenches sometimes crushing any enemies that still lived under the massive treads guts and other viscera spewed out behind them.
It took half a day to fully conquer the city the rest of the world soon falling alongside the capital the union dead barley numbered in the tens of thousands a stark contrast to the half a million turians slain but this was only the beginning the start of a galaxy spanning war the likes of which neither side could expect.
